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Poop Happened!: A History of the World from the Bottom Up
167 pp.
| Walker |
May, 2010 |
LibraryISBN 978-0-8027-9825-1$19.89
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PaperISBN 978-0-8027-2077-1$15.99
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4-6
Illustrated by
Robert Leighton.
Eighteen chapters with short sub-sections, call-out boxes, humorous cartoons, and archival photographs cover the human struggle to deal with excrement and its resultant smells, pollution, and diseases. The book's design is unattractive, but the tongue-in-cheek tone and goofy humor ("When in Rome, Poo as the Romans Do") will appeal to the middle-grade set. Timeline. Ind.